How do we do that? You're a professor.

Criminal trials cannot proceed unless there are witnesses, and if witnesses are subject to intimidation or subject to the ultimate elimination, through murder, obviously criminal cases cannot go forward.

Have we made any improvements in the intensity of the big-city crime problem?

Thank you very much.

How many of you think that to cooperate with police and report a crime is something that you ought to do?

How about on the issue of the underlying causes of crime, the issues of education, poverty, housing, job training?

We're going to take a look, before we're finished on these hearings, at the Federal Witness/Victim Protection program.

I think an appointment system might be better for the average person going to vote. But no system is perfect.

We've got to find a way to do something to make people feel safe and secure if they do step forward and provide information.

There have to be consequences and the consequences have to be significant in order for people to get the message.

And was that the reason he tried to burn down the house?

When you said his picture was posted, amplify what you meant by that.

So you would concede that, as in your own words, the Inquirer did do some real public service in some lines?

But doesn't the judge give limiting instruction?

Is he a snitch?

This hearing has been recognized following an extensive series of articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer, maintaining major problems in the criminal justice system setting in Philadelphia.

When you call for a national commission, Senator Webb and I have introduced the Webb-Specter bill calling for such a commission.

I have been pressing for mandatory sentences on Medicare and Medicaid fraud.